Chapter 46, Military Reform
This situation did not last long, because very directly, the young ratmen who had just been added to the ratman army showed faint signs of fleeing.
Then, before the collapse actually happened.
Those wavering young ratmen were directly killed by the senior ratmen warriors on their side first.
On the chaotic battlefield, scarlet eyes were mixed among the rats, looking indifferently at the young ratmen with frightened and shaken faces. The blood on the third spear behind him with its tail wrapped around it was bright red and dazzling. Correspondingly, there was the equally young rat-man corpse with wide eyes.
After battle after battle, the surviving senior Skaven warriors not only became stronger and stronger, but also gradually became the absolute backbone of their Skaven troops.
In the constant battles, these senior rat warriors gradually understood a truth.
That is, whether you can continuously obtain blood mushrooms depends on the success of your participation in the battle, and whether the battle goes smoothly depends on the other rat people around you.
Originally, these senior rat warriors would not be so active, because in most cases, no matter whether the battle goes smoothly or not, the benefits are not their turn.
As long as the situation does not lead to a complete collapse of the army, and then being beaten to a rout, it is enough to be captured and used as the most despicable slave rat.
After all, no matter how many enemies are killed and how many slaves are captured, the blood mushrooms will only circulate in the hands of priests and warlords.
If the priest gives too many inferior red blood mushrooms to the boss, and the boss really can't eat them all and doesn't like these inferior goods, some of them will leak into the hands of old fritters like them.
Moreover, the ownership of these leaked blood mushrooms is not determined by how many enemies are killed, but by the fights and unspoken rules between veterans.
Then why do you have to go all out to fight with others to death?
There is no benefit in performing well, and you are easily injured. It would be more practical to save some energy and wait for the warlord boss to show his kindness and grab blood mushrooms with other rats.
Hide a little further back. If you win, you win. If you can't beat it, try harder. If you really can't beat it, you can still run faster.
This resulted in the extremely poor combat effectiveness of the Skaven troops, as well as the frighteningly high battle-loss ratio. After all, they were easy to fight. Young Skaven and those green-headed Skaven warriors rushed over, and they won by fighting. .
If it's a bit more difficult to fight, these veterans will help.
If you really can't beat them, believe me, these old guys will run faster than those young ratmen.
As for this situation, the previous rat warlords were not unaware of it, but they were obsessed with exchanging blood mushrooms with the priests and didn't care.
After all, the Ratmen do not have the label of strong combat power.
Moreover, those young rat men are not worth much. If you really can't defeat them, you can just run away. As long as you can escape, those rat men who come back will be sorted out, plus the young rat men who keep sending them to you. .
Soon the troops gathered again.
Why should we care about the fighting attitude of these old fools?
With such an attitude, it is understandable that the Rat Man's low combat effectiveness is excusable.
There was no reason why Du Yuan was disappointed. You must know that when Du Yuan had a life-and-death fight with Li Sheng for the first time, the number of rat warriors he had at that time was far less than what it is now.
Even the wooden spears were not equipped, and there were quite a few who used stone teeth, but at that time they were at odds with Li Sheng's lizardmen.
There is nothing to be afraid of.
But now there are more ratmen, better equipment than before, and a constant supply of blood mushrooms.
Such rat troops would occasionally encounter difficulties and stalemates when fighting small tribes in the forest.
Du Yuanhui couldn't help but feel dissatisfied.
But fortunately, things have changed recently.
The white rats killed those priests who colluded with the rat warlords and crazily sold young rat men to serve as slave rats, as well as some warlords who acted as standouts.
This is one point. At least the current rat warlords no longer dare to do what they did before. After the rat priests send young rat men, they drive them to participate in the battle, then wait for the fleeers to appear, and then capture them on the spot and give them to the priests. performance.
Some time ago, when the white rats lacked slave rats to build the temple, there were even some rat warlords who went too far. They would not even follow this form. The priests brought young rat men to them, and then they directly became Slave rats are exchanged back.
Of course, this saves trouble, and blood mushrooms are also very abundant.
But the rat warlords who had done this were all sent into the black abyss by the white rats.
The current Skaven Warlord is undoubtedly the one who cherishes the young Skaven and Skaven warriors the most since the Skaven Warlord came into existence in this Skaven tribe.
Obviously there are more and more young ratmen, but the rules for young ratmen have become looser.
Under the current rules, if a young ratman escapes the supervising team and the enemy for the first time and successfully returns alive, at least for the first time, he will not be directly beaten into a slave rat.
Instead, he had to escape for the third time and be lucky enough to survive and then be caught, and then he would be reduced to a slave rat and be tied up with a rope and taken away by the priest in shame.
Of course, it is doubtful that there are really young ratmen who can successfully survive three battles that shake their morale, and then during this period, they are not executed on the spot by the supervising team, and are not killed by the pursuing enemies. Survived, and then left the rat group under the uneasy instinct.
Returning to the army under a Skaven warlord and being taken away on a rope to become a glorious slave rat?
I can only say that it is difficult.
However, although this situation is difficult to happen, the changed rules still successfully achieved his purpose.
That is to prevent the priests, who originally had requirements for slaves and sacrifices, from colluding with the rat warlords.
In order to prevent this matter, the young ratman who was part of the goods in the triangular trade was naturally given several more opportunities and was boldly liberated.
Although it may be that in essence, giving young ratmen a chance is not purely for the sake of these poor young ratmen.
But the benefits have indeed arrived.
This change was driven by the young temple guard, Rat Zhan, who was appointed by the White Rat and was the most commanding and good-looking deputy among the rat warriors.
Of course, this change alone is not enough to make those veteran rat warriors actively participate in the battle.
But the new rules introduced by the Rat War are far more than just this one.
While relaxing the strict requirements for young ratmen, Rat War has done more for these old fritters.
It was the constant push for changes that allowed these veterans to willingly appear on the front line of the battle, and also allowed the combat effectiveness of the rat army to gradually return to a normal level from being extremely weak at the beginning. .
After all, the rat army is an army with a stable supply of extraordinary factors. Even if the rat men are not powerful, their performance should not be so miserable.
It's just limited by the rough structure.
Bai Shu really has good vision, and Shu Zhan is indeed a good mouse.